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Subject: 
Large LDraw/MPD Files?
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Date: 
Fri, 20 Dec 2002 03:35:27 GMT
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Has anyone had experience with HUGE LDraw files or MPD files (thousands of
parts)? What are the effects? Do they crash some programs, or make them
unusably slow? Just curious.

Thanks!

-Tim



Message has 3 Replies:
  Re: Large LDraw/MPD Files?
 
(...) What are you trying to view the file with? MLCAD has a hard time when the files get too big even if it is a file with multiple-sub models. Forget about LDView it will hog up memory like crazy trying to turn the model. -Ahui (22 years ago, 20-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad)
  Re: Large LDraw/MPD Files?
 
(...) Datsville is IMHO a HUGE model, with its 2Mb+ and several sub-models used multiple times. MLCAD is out of the question, but L3Lab is acceptable: 6.3-13 seconds, depending on zoom factor and other preferences. No problem with L3P, but I haven't (...) (22 years ago, 20-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad)
  Re: Large LDraw/MPD Files?
 
Hi Tim, I've been working on a model with lots of synthesized pneumatic hoses, and it is about 16M (it qualifies as large). I found that LPub didn't handle this well at all. It would not choke, but it took a very long time. I tracked it down to (...) (21 years ago, 5-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad)

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